Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
She wants to know if you love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the cupboard.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Love is for everyone. The good, the bad, the disabled, the mad. Show more love to someone who doesn't understand what it is and free them from the pain and isolation that surrounds them.
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
The unexamined life is not worth living.